People v. Harris

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, rendered July 28,1977, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence to the time already served. As so modified, judgment affirmed. On November 26, 1976 defendant concededly shot and killed Mitchell Best. The defense to the charges arising from that act was that the defendant acted unintentionally and, in any event, with legal justification since he was interrupting a…